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Strongyloid

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Stron´gy`loid
a.1.(Zool.) Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious.
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Sources of infection are filariform strongyloid larvae present in soil contaminated by infected feces; the larvae penetrate through the skin of a human host.
Reemergence of strongyloidiasis, Northern Italy by Abrescia, Fabrizio F.; Falda, Alessandra; Caramaschi, Giacomo; Scalzini, Alfredo; Gobbi, Federico; A / Emerging Infectious Diseases
 
 
 
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